Amiga - Happy 30th birthday

[Timbo_S2]

I'd have been about 10/11 when me and my sister received the Batman pack for Christmas. Batman, New Zealand story and F/A 18 Interceptor. Wonderful!

Remember paying about £100 for the 512mb trapdoor extension too, so that I could play Lotus esprit Challenge!

[towser44]

Used to go around my mates every night after school and we played Lotus Challenge in 2 player split screen mode for hours! Loved that game!

[Cheese Mechanic]

Sportidge said:

Ah, the nostalgia.
Believe it or not, I actually won an A500 in a magazine competition not too long after they came out.
But my first introduction to the Amiga was on a mate's one, watching the "Zowee Demo" by Jolyon Ralph.
Amazing at the time.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHqRUq7fxf4

I well recall that. Amiga Computing was the best Amiga mag back in the day, by a country mile. Its scope was so wide. They near got me coding, except for my distracting manner of taking an interest in all and everything.

Jolyon Ralph's Dad had a hardware business, I well recall buying an AOC multisync 14" SVGA monitor from them (Amiga compatible) , serious kit back then.

[FourWheelDrift]

It's 90s again

Frontier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzEj4Gq7fT4
Another World - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACNPxKhxAjM <--- I always thought the car was a De Tomaso Pantera

[mp3manager]

I see there's plenty of mainstream gamers on here with fond memories but who was in the scene?

Any Grapevine fans?

Edited by mp3manager on Thursday 30th July 04:29

[_dobbo_]

Can't believe nobody has posted this.

http://www.winuae.net/

edit, sorry, this is better:

http://www.amigaforever.com/


Relive your misspent youth, particularly if you buy one of these to go with it:



I've got winuae on a USB stick, I can play Amiga games on any PC, flashback to my past, love it.

Edited by _dobbo_ on Thursday 30th July 16:40

[Beati Dogu]

I used to have a joystick like that, but the case plastic was transparent.

[twister]

_dobbo_ said:

Can't believe nobody has posted this.

http://www.winuae.net/

edit, sorry, this is better:

http://www.amigaforever.com/

Or even http://pnacl-amiga-emulator.appspot.com/

[RobDickinson]

The Comp pro joysticks were the best, only thing that could stand a Daley Thompson decathlon session!

I also used to use my atari 2600 joysticks which worked well and almost endlessly repairable.

[_dobbo_]

RobDickinson said:

The Comp pro joysticks were the best, only thing that could stand a Daley Thompson decathlon session!

I also used to use my atari 2600 joysticks which worked well and almost endlessly repairable.

Swapping microswitches between joysticks to make a working one out of two broken ones.... Those were the days.

[Bradders901]

Who remembers this Amiga demo - Jesus on E's:

http://youtu.be/x37gIahAtXQ

Also liked combat air patrol..

Loved the Amiga in its day.

Dunc

[_dobbo_]

haha Jesus on E's

I was the envy of my mates because I had two disk drives and didn't have to swap disks half way through

Also - my biggest time sinks after Sensible World of Soccer:

Chaos Engine
Cannon Fodder (1&2)
Syndicate

[jjones]

_dobbo_ said:

Chaos Engine
Cannon Fodder (1&2)
Syndicate

All great, and Leisure Suit Larry!

[mp3manager]

twister said:

_dobbo_ said:

Can't believe nobody has posted this.

http://www.winuae.net/

edit, sorry, this is better:

http://www.amigaforever.com/

Or even http://pnacl-amiga-emulator.appspot.com/

Or even Amikit

[Cheese Mechanic]

My faves were (After Elite)

Stunt car racer
Nebulus
Wings
Pirates
Sim city
Lemming
F15 (you could link machines via an altered Parralel printer port cable)

Plus many others that have slipeed my mind.

[FourWheelDrift]

SKID MARKS !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDR8osIbqVI

[_dobbo_]

Skid marks was too good!

I also remember Amiga Power magazine had a free cover disk with "Gravity Power" which was one of the greatest things I have ever played in my life.

And three seconds later, yay google, yay internet, you can download it.

http://amr.abime.net/issue_50_coverdisks

[GrizzlyBear]

I still have a 1200 in the attic, still works fine.

The amount of time I must have spent playing Elite, then Frontier. Syndicate was great. Wish I could get them on my Laptop now.

[FourWheelDrift]

GrizzlyBear said:

I still have a 1200 in the attic, still works fine.

The amount of time I must have spent playing Elite, then Frontier. Syndicate was great. Wish I could get them on my Laptop now.

If you get D-Fend Reloaded - http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/ you can download the PC versions and play them.

One of the Abandonware Games sites - http://www.myabandonware.com/

Forgot the screen cap

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Wednesday 5th August 13:46

[cobra kid]

_dobbo_ said:

Swapping microswitches between joysticks to make a working one out of two broken ones.... Those were the days.

I had the Comp Pro 5000 and also the transparent one as well on the C64.